Okay I said the one word I wasn't allowed to -windows-, hehe, soz, but my prob is this:
My dad's computer is hooked up to my cable modem with winXP (he doesn't know any better ), and is sharing the internet up to my room with my l33t gentoo box... anyway, I wanna host HTTP and FTP on my box, but I can't find one piece of software to do this... windows' built-in forwarding simply does nothing... when I had win2k I was using RelayTCP (www.dlcsistemas.com) but doesn't werk on winXP... so my question is: "does anyone know any software for winXP to forwarding ports 21 and 80 to my computer?(192.168.0.2)

why don't you convince your dad to put something in front of that winxp box? that way you can share your cable modem the proper way. plus, it'll cut the risk way down. a google search will turn up plenty of info for you to use as ammo. An internet-facing windows box is just *begging* for trouble.

anything would be better, even one of those linksys routers. or you could just throw linux onto an old pc (486 or lower pentium will work fine).

some easier firewall distros include smoothwall, ipcop, lrp, mandrake snf......hell, even openbsd isn't too tough to set up as a firewall.

i'm not sure what your level of expertise is, but if you need any guidance, feel free to ask.

I have an SMC router, and it is easy as pie to use, and it comes with a printer port so you can share on the network. It is very easy to foward ports and such with its web-based config tool_________________Face it, we are all noobs.

On the box it said it was designed for Win XP or better, so why won't it work with Linux?

sorry about posting in a gentoo forum, anyway, with all due respect I didn't ask the best solution for my problem, I asked for winXP software to forward ports to another machine... I am going to buy a router but for now I don't have money (and no, my dad won't lend me )

If u do get a router, don't get a dlink. I have one and it sux. Cant porward port ranges. It might be ok if u dont want to serv aaything, ordont want to serv much(maybe u could do a web server with it, but ftp+passv mode wont work). Also u need to restart th stupid thing when u map 1 port.